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Steve Benson

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
518 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1700 How A Bootstrapped $3m Revenue CEO Plans to Handle Virus, Potential Cashflow Issues

They trim off a little flesh and then they go a little deeper and they go a little deeper and eventually they hit bone.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1700 How A Bootstrapped $3m Revenue CEO Plans to Handle Virus, Potential Cashflow Issues

It'll likely be a fairly painful process for a lot of businesses in the world.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1700 How A Bootstrapped $3m Revenue CEO Plans to Handle Virus, Potential Cashflow Issues

Some are already in deep trouble immediately, obviously.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1700 How A Bootstrapped $3m Revenue CEO Plans to Handle Virus, Potential Cashflow Issues

You're a

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1700 How A Bootstrapped $3m Revenue CEO Plans to Handle Virus, Potential Cashflow Issues

A bar, bars are, if you're a bar in San Francisco, the bars are closed.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1700 How A Bootstrapped $3m Revenue CEO Plans to Handle Virus, Potential Cashflow Issues

Your revenue just dropped to zero.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1700 How A Bootstrapped $3m Revenue CEO Plans to Handle Virus, Potential Cashflow Issues

I think we did about 8% convertible note.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1700 How A Bootstrapped $3m Revenue CEO Plans to Handle Virus, Potential Cashflow Issues

and this is, you know, eight, eight years ago, seven years ago, we did this.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1700 How A Bootstrapped $3m Revenue CEO Plans to Handle Virus, Potential Cashflow Issues

So, but no other equity other than that.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1700 How A Bootstrapped $3m Revenue CEO Plans to Handle Virus, Potential Cashflow Issues

So we've sold 8% of the business and convertible notes, but no, no professional money in.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1700 How A Bootstrapped $3m Revenue CEO Plans to Handle Virus, Potential Cashflow Issues

I think more like 450, if I recall.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1700 How A Bootstrapped $3m Revenue CEO Plans to Handle Virus, Potential Cashflow Issues

I think it's a great time to take on debt because this doesn't last forever, right?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1700 How A Bootstrapped $3m Revenue CEO Plans to Handle Virus, Potential Cashflow Issues

This is a, this is likely a shorter term bump.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1700 How A Bootstrapped $3m Revenue CEO Plans to Handle Virus, Potential Cashflow Issues

Is it, is it a three month problem?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1700 How A Bootstrapped $3m Revenue CEO Plans to Handle Virus, Potential Cashflow Issues

Is it an eight, eight month problem?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1700 How A Bootstrapped $3m Revenue CEO Plans to Handle Virus, Potential Cashflow Issues

I'm not sure, but, um, it's certainly not a two week problem and it's certainly not a two year problem.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1700 How A Bootstrapped $3m Revenue CEO Plans to Handle Virus, Potential Cashflow Issues

So I think, you know, there, there are a lot of fantastic debt providers out there that have, have really gone after the SAS space.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1700 How A Bootstrapped $3m Revenue CEO Plans to Handle Virus, Potential Cashflow Issues

Um, you know, and, and I think that, that, uh, I mean, there are, there are,

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1700 How A Bootstrapped $3m Revenue CEO Plans to Handle Virus, Potential Cashflow Issues

40 of them.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1700 How A Bootstrapped $3m Revenue CEO Plans to Handle Virus, Potential Cashflow Issues

And, and, you know, some of them are better than others, but they're, I think I haven't run into any, I haven't run into any terrible ones I've run into and I haven't run into any amazing deals or anything.